Thus the young genius says, "I have lived in my dreary and squalid village before I found success in Paris or Vienna." The sound philosopher will answer, "You have never lived in your village, or you would not call it dreary and squalid."英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
Comfort has come to me here in the dreary streets of the city, Comfort--how do you think?--with a barrel-organ to bring it. Moping along the streets, and cursing my day as I wandered, All of a sudden my ear met the sound of an English psalm-tune, Comfort me it did, till indeed I was very near crying. Ah, there is some great truth, partial, very likely, but needful, Lodged, I am strangely sure, in the tones of the English psalm-tune. Comfort it was at least; and I must take without question Comfort, however it come, in the dreary streets of the city.英文原著 · 《Amours de Voyage》
"`I nod my head to all who pass, and dreary nights and dreary days go by; but in the happy house, so warm and bright, the little boy plays all day with books and toys. His mother and his father cherish him; he nestles on their knees in the red firelight at night, while they read to him lovely stories, or sing sweet old songs to him,--the happy little boy! And outside I peep over the snow and see a stream of ruddy light from a crack in the window- shutter, and I nod out here alone in the dark, thinking how beautiful it is.英文原著 · 《How To Tell Stories To Children》
He delivered his message, and handed Mme. de Lorcy the little portfolio that contained Mlle. Moriaz's painting, expressing his regret that business had prevented his coming sooner. de Lorcy thanked him for his kindness, with rather a cool politeness, and asked him for news of her goddaughter. He did not expatiate on this topic. "The valley of Saint Moritz is a dreary country," she next said. "Rather say, madame, that it is a dreary country possessing a great charm for those who love it."
"It appears that Mlle. Moriaz is almost wearied to death there.英文原著 · 《Samuel Brohl & Company》
And Mildred, looking back over the dreary drudgery that had been, and looking forward to the drudgery yet to come, dreary enough for all the prospects of a few flowers and a little sun--Mildred said: ``Indeed I do, maestro.''英文原著 · 《The Price She Paid》
On a sudden shrilly sounding, Hideous yells and shrieks were heard; Then each heart with fear confounding, A sad troop of ghosts appeared, All in dreary hammocks shrouded, Which for winding-sheets they wore, And with looks by sorrow clouded Frowning on that hostile shore.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
That was the last song the band played on the Titanic, and it is a dreary tune.美剧 · 《Billions》
* If I didn't have you * * Life would be dreary * * I'd be string theory without any string * * I'd be binary code without a one * * A cathode ray tube without an electron gun * * I'd be Firefly, Buffy and Avengers without Joss Whedon * * I'd speak a lot more Klingon * * Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam * * An美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》